zerikma

Zerikma means "don't get bored" in Uzbek.

Mini games in your terminal while Claude Code works: Typing Race, 2048 and Bug Smash. Zerikma watches your Claude Code sessions. When one finishes it pauses the game, rings the terminal bell and tells you which session is done.

npx zerikma

Run it in a second terminal tab, a tmux split or a Windows Terminal pane, next to claude.

Open it next to Claude automatically

npx zerikma open

This opens the games in the right place for you:

| Where you are | What happens | |---|---| | tmux | splits the window and opens the games on the right | | Windows Terminal | opens a new split pane | | Claude inside VS Code | opens the Zerikma panel (VS Code extension) | | anything else | opens a new terminal window |

/zerikma inside Claude Code

Install the plugin once, then type /zerikma in any Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add IRMuhammadjon/typing-race-for-claude-code
/plugin install zerikma@zerikma

/zerikma 2048 or /zerikma bug starts a specific game.

Games

• Typing Race: a Monkeytype-style test with programming words, from if for let up to x?.y??z
• 2048: the classic, in calm serika colors
• Bug Smash: breakout where the bricks are bugs (null, TODO, NaN…) and the power-ups are Claude tools: Grep, Bash, Read, Plan, Ultrathink… and Rate limit, which shrinks your paddle. In terminals that support it, the mouse moves the paddle too.

Work first, then play

When Claude finishes you get 10 seconds to finish your round, then the game locks until you reply to Claude. A timer shows how long Claude has been waiting, and in tmux and Windows Terminal the cursor jumps back to Claude's pane. Reply within 30 seconds for a ⚡ quick-reply streak. ctrl+t gives you 2 more minutes, once an hour. Run zerikma --gentle to only pause instead.

Keys

| Key | Action | |---|---| | ctrl+n | next game | | tab | restart | | esc / enter | pause / resume | | ctrl+l | language: English, O'zbekcha, Русский | | ctrl+t | 2 more minutes when the game is locked (once an hour) | | ctrl+c | quit |

Options: zerikma 2048, zerikma bug, zerikma --lang uz.

Privacy

Everything runs locally. Zerikma reads only the last few KB of Claude Code session files in ~/.claude/projects, to see whether a session is working or done. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Not affiliated with Anthropic. Made by Muhammadjon Rahmatullayev. MIT License.